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Shaunas utrolige forvandling

I'm heading into my sixth Scottish winter and it's always a shock, that first Monday after the clocks go back and we leave work in the dark. Then I turn into a crotchety zombie until March, but I'll exercise like a mofo and get the endorphins buzzing. Perhaps also tape a photo of a tropical beach to the computer for backup.

I know there's a few Southern Hemisphere imports out there – I hope you were gathering up your Happy Funtime Memories over the summer like lunatic squirrels, ready to feast on during the bleak months ahead. But seriously, there is much to look forward to. Christmas parties, BBC period dramas; satsumas, clementines and other easy-to-peel citrus.

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Are there any Norwegians in the house?

Today I received copies of the Norwegian edition of Dietgirl which came out this month. It's got Smarties on the cover! You cannae go wrong with that.

Vega, the publishing house, only got in touch in March and they've turned it into a real live book already! Hardcover with full colour photos too. Swanky.

Spare a thought for Carina Westberg, the translator. I can't imagine anything more tedious than having to translate cake and arse and scale and post-Drive-thru-remorse eleventeen billion times.

I don't understand a jot of Norwegian but that hasn't stopped me lovingly stroking the pages this evening and gawking at all the funny squiggles. And… Doktor G!

Weight Watchers needs no translation apparently.

If you're Norwegian or you just happen to be fluent and fancy a read, please give me a shout!

57 thoughts on “Shaunas utrolige forvandling”

I love your blog. You’ve given me inspiration and have ultimately already changed my life. Without you and your courage I would be no where and pathetic. You’ve made me unpathetic. Haha. I love Shauna Reid.

Hey, chicka. I’m 100 percent Norwegian, but Americanized so the language is as foreign as Gaelic 🙁 But how cool it must be to see what are (we trust) your words in print in another language! And with candy on the cover, no less.

Also, do you wish our governments would quit f’in around with our time? ….sigh….It takes me weeks to get my dogs adjusted to the time change.

Supercool, Shauna! That reminds me of the opening credits to Monty Python and the Holy Grail where they translate everything into pseudo-Norwegian. I hope your translator did a better job than the film’s!

Supercool, Shauna! That reminds me of the opening credits to Monty Python and the Holy Grail where they translate everything into pseudo-Norwegian. I hope your translator did a better job than the film’s!

ha! awesome… just remember that every time its says ‘bra’ that means good, they are not talking about lingerie! and ‘slutte’, the nice word there shown up means stop… but it does pretty much sound like that not so nice australian word when the real norwegians pronounce it!

How fabulous being translated into a Scandinavian language!Have they Photoshopped you to Norse strawberry blonde?? Co-incidently, the best thing to survive a Scottish winter is a Norwegian fisherman’s cardigan. I survived my impoverished student days with one of these and rue the day I got rid of it!

Hey, congrats. I loved the Dutch edition of mine — had a much better cover than the English one (although your English cover was hard to beat), and much less painful to read (because hey, I can’t understand a word of it). Hope all’s well…

Beth! I’m totally with you – I think I’m more excited about this than the English version because I don’t understand a word and it could be about knitting or stalking bears in Alaska for all I know… but it’s still got my name on it so it’s cool 😛

Congratulations! I think I’d be just as excited as you if I had a book of mine translated into Norwegian!

I had the original version with the English cover shipped across the pond when it first came out, but I’m going to a bookstore this afternoon and will keep an eye out for the American version!

By the way, is it bad that my trip to the bookstore is to get the next three books in a series that is so good I skipped the gym last night to finish reading the first one? Hmm…I smell trouble for my gym regimen.

Hey, and GRATULERER (congrats) to the Norwegian edition! I am Norwegian (well, I am Swedish but living in Norway since long, so it goes for the same I guess).
“Slutte” means to “stop”. Så “drømt om å slutte” means something like “dreamt about stopping…”

Congrats on the new edition. I was about to email a Norwegian friend for a translation of “Så “drømt om å slutte” til I read the comment by am. I’ve been planning on ordering from Book Depository because they offer free shipping to US-but they’re out of stock. Yikes! I really want to read the original version with all the aussie/scots slang. I don’t need someone to translate chips to french fries, etc. It’s more fun to me exactly the way you wrote it.

Hi
I’m very glad to see that your book is released here in Norway. I’ve read it in english and I’m buying it for my wife this evening.
From the small snippets of norwegian I can see in the pictures, the translation looks very fine. Yes, I know we have a strange and funny language.
We incorporate more and more english words into our language, I guess that’s the reason a lot of the words are not translated. Diet Girl in norwegian would be Slanke Piken. Weight Watchers do (to my knowledge) not exist in Norway, the closest is diet by a lady called Grete Roede. She has adopted much of the philosophy of Weight Watchers I think. Anyways, great book.

Not strictly related to a norweigan copy of the book but book related – I was on hols in Tanzania until this morning (boo) and guess what I saw in the book shop in Dar Es Salaam… yep indeed! Sorry, no photographic evidence, you’ll just have to trust me!

We change our clocks this coming weekend. I hate it, too. I think we get a bit more sunshine than you all do, though, so I suppose I shouldn’t complain. I do enjoy these lower temperatures & fall leaves, regardless of how fleeting they are.

I just spent quite a long time twisting my head trying to make sense of the words on the cover pic. V. glad you explained it is the Norwegian edition – thought it was just all related to a long day at work…

I bought it last night (yeah in norwegian) and my wife loved it!
She had to restrain herself from reading it in one sitting. She recognized herself in a lot of the stuff that you went through especially the things with you family/mother. Always thinking she was fat, when in fact she was perfectly normal. She told me to say your book is fantastic, and that she will be tucked in under a warm blanket reading the other half today, wishing it wouldn’t end.

I read your book – the UK version a few months ago in one sitting and loved it! What a fantastic book and a great read!
I love the Norwegian copy of the book, I wish the smarties were real. Congratulations and thank you

I`m from Norway and I`ve just read your book. I`m impressed over you. You`ve been very clever. You are beautiful and your transformation is fantastic. The book was very good to read and I liked it. I`ve worked whith the weight over many years and are still doing it. I felt that you sat words on things and situations that I strangled with. Go on girl, I also like bicycle and body pump an have been in the trainingcenter here this evening.

Hey!! Im Norwegian- American, do speak the language though.. I was actually just sent to your blog today(by some Norwegians at a diet forum), and ordered your book just now.. Too bad I cant get it until christmas though… I´m in the process of big time loosing, so this motivation is very welcome. Thank You for providing some!!

Another Norwegian!
I’m very sad to say that I had never heard of your blog until I saw your book in the store a week ago. My birthday was coming up, and you were on my list of wishes! I just finished the book tonight, and I absolutely LOVED it! I love the way you write, and I can relate to a lot of what you’re saying. I’ve always had a normal weight, my problem is that I’m short. I’ve learned to deal with it now that I’m almost done with my teenage-years, but it was really nice to read about somebody elses thoughts about their problems. And I loved the part where we first hear about Gareth. It felt like it was one of my close friends telling me about a new crush, and seeing how it ended up in marriage =) You are a true inspiration, and I will read your blog everyday from now on 😀